Really. I mean, I know that it is difficult for people who are not transgender to understand what it feels or means to be transgender, because it is a non-feeling to them, but Ben Carson purports to be the "smartest guy in the room."

But all he is proving is that he is the dumbest "smart guy" in Cleveland.

In an interview with The Hill newspaper, Carson felt it necessary to share his views on transgender. As is usually the case for Carson, his synapses appear not to be firing in good order at the time.

For someone to wake up and think that they belong to a different sex because they feel different that day is the same as if you woke up and said I'm Afghani today because I saw a movie about that last night and even though my genetics might not indicate that, that's the way I feel, and if you say that I'm not, then you’re a racist.

So much to unpack there. Where are Foucault and Derrida when you need them?

I'll make my best effort

First of all, anyone who has been halfway awake over the past decade (which is not certain to include Carson, I know) understands that transgender people don't just wake up one day with that knowledge of their identity. Identity formation begins when we are quite young and takes a lifetime.

And seriously? Comparing gender identity to ethnicity? What they have in common is that both are the basis for discrimination.

From there his thought process takes such a sharp turn that I don't think the vehicle stayed on the road. Emergency equipment may be required. Ben is scheduled to speak at the Convention tonight.

The statement is precisely the kind of potential distraction convention organizers would probably like to avoid as they focus on economic issues Tuesday. Republicans adopted a staunchly conservative party platform this month, particularly on social issues, even though Donald Trump himself has taken a more liberal view on gay rights.

What we ought to do is utilize our brains, utilize our common sense as human beings. We’ve known what men are and what women are for thousands of years. So we don’t know anything, everything is relative — this doesn’t make any sense.

It’s not based on your feelings, it’s based on what you are.

Can a leopard change its spots? No. It can’t because it feels like maybe it’s a different creature. No. it’s still a leopard. Sorry.

--Carson, speaking to the Florida delegation

And for just as long, many cultures have known that not everyone fits into the binary separation of which Carson speaks.

For a "neuroscientist" the man sure has little understanding of the human brain.